Pakistan interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that Islamabad will soon ask New Delhi to allow Pakistani team of investigators probing the Pathankot attack to visit the site.
Pakistan interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that Islamabad will soon ask New Delhi to allow Pakistani team of investigators probing the Pathankot attack to visit the site.
Addressing a press conference in Taxila, the minister said, “We will soon ask India to let our special investigation team experts to visit Pathankot airbase.”
The minister said foreign office would formally approach India to seek permission for Pakistan’s special investigation team to visit Pathankot.
The team’s visit would help gather relevant information on Pathankot attack as answers to many questions and links might be found there, he said.
He added the investigation team had held many meetings and its work was proceeding ahead.
Mr Khan once again ruled out the presence of militant organisation Daesh (ISIS) in the country but came with a new version that some local militant groups were rebranding themselves with its name.
“Around 45 different terrorist organisations were operating in Pakistan and they kept on changing their names but there was no presence of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or IS in the country, as it was a North African and Middle Eastern organisation,” he said.
He also made it clear that he never said that there was no case registered against Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz.
Mr Khan said that action would be taken against Maulana Abdul Aziz, if he broke the law and if any evidence was presented against him.
“If there is any evidence, do bring it. I know the civil society is raising political slogans,” he said.
He said 31 cases had been registered against Maulana Aziz of which 11 were of heinous nature, but he was acquitted due to weak evidence and prosecution during the tenure of previous government.
